By the way,  one other way you can do set-up that we prefer:  1) Look at the battlefield carefully,  2) put a divider thru the middle of the field so you can’t see opponent’s forces as they are set up.    Makes for a more dramatic and interesting design!    Also we add one other feature we like:  Start 4 hexes in instead of 5… again we feel it makes for a more interesting approach (in this case, we also add one turn to max length of the game, 11 instead of 10.